Thursday, July 7, 2011

This Is Burnout Crash...



... and, no, I'm not kidding:

"I do believe Criterion's heart is in the right place, but having waited so long for another game bearing the Burnout name, I must say I wasn't expecting what Burnout Crash delivers. You'll hear comparisons to the original Grand Theft Auto with an explode button and Micro Machines with dynamite, but I hesitate to call this game Burnout." - Peter Eykemans of IGN.com

7 comments:

umopapis said...

I dub thee 'Burnout Crash: Failtown'.

No wonder nothing came out at E3, I remember Alex Ward @CrashedAlex tweeting about being unsure if he could be bothered going to E3 this year. With this in his back pocket I can understand why :(

His twitter account is gone now.

They are at they 'EA Summer Showcase' with this booth http://a.yfrog.com/img740/9621/cw5ko.jpg

All that on the wall is UK 80's/early 90's TV celebrity pics. Seemingly trying to embrace the naffness of it all.

I have to end every statement about this game by saying it would be fine as a game if it hadn't been Criterion using the Burnout IP, knowing what they are capable of.

Bond said...

We're never gonna finish Lost Planet you guys are never on

md said...

i was on Friday night, but didn't see anyone. i'm starting to come to the realization that we'll never play like we used to. I've already sold 90% of my games and, if it weren't for netflix and a few games coming out this year, i probably would have sold my 360 too.

4am sessions just aren't possible for me anymore and no one is on before midnight. i'm not even sure if i should get gears 3...

Chronic said...

Gears 3 is the ONLY game Ive preordered, so you can count me in on that! I wish I was on more but Ive been really busy trying to pay all my bills and Im starting to really get back into making music also, which is what I did in my free time before I just got on Xbox Live and hung out playing Burnout with you guys every day.

I will definitely be on a lot more this week. I finished Portal 2 and will post my thoughts about it at some point. I was on chapter 8 and lost my game save, and had to restart from chapter 5 so I spent a lot of time with it. Cant wait for the coop. That and LP2 for sure this week!

Darth said...

You keep losing a lot of game-saves lately...

Just saying...

Chronic said...

Dude, its driving me NUTS!!! I really almost lost it when I booted up Portal 2, being moments from the ending, and it put me in chapter 5. The autosave just disappeared. Really Im just lucky I randomly decided to create a manual save point in Chapter 5, otherwise all would have been lost. Between Outland and Lost Planet 2 and Portal 2 its really getting ridiculous. Also, my Virtua Tennis 3 gamesave will sometimes glitch and I have to delete it to be able to play, so I have never unlocked a lot of the achievements like play 100 games on each court, which I would have by now...

Oh well, at least its better than losing my Burnout 3 save. I had to unlock the Euro like 5 times!

But yeah, Xbox Live Cloud saves cant come soon enough...

umo said...

I never leave it to autosave. I have to get a round robin of 3 alternating saves going at once in case the system messes up or the game leads me down a bad path and bugs out.

I still can't figure out a way to help Bond get all his saves back though, short of mailing his HD to one of you to put on a working 360 and copy the saves you can onto a USB stick so he can load them onto his Slim model.